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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

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Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

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Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

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Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...